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pseudorandom name posted:there's also a bunch of shambling corpses like S3 and SGI that have that one mandatory patent S3's patent on BC/DXT texture compression expires in October of this year.
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Patents last 20 years. So an open sores GPU can only really implement the functionality of a GPU from early 1997. Oh you want anything that even vaguely resembles shaders well gently caress you every single silicon architectural feature required to implement them is undoubtedly patented out the loving rear end. https://www.google.com/#q=fused+multiply+accumulate+patent Even fused multiply accumulate has a bunch of bullshit patents around it.
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The_Franz posted:S3's patent on BC/DXT texture compression expires in October of this year. the idea of storing colors in floats has a few more years
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pseudorandom name posted:the idea of storing colors in floats has a few more years so... every javascript program that deals with colors is in violation of this patent?
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why would you store colours in floats i mean, besides javascript
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Truga posted:why would you store colours in floats hdr
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isn't that just 10 bits per subpixel? does it really need a whole float to work correctly?
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you're confusing the C float keyword with the idea of floating point numbers
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Sapozhnik posted:Oh you want anything that even vaguely resembles shaders well gently caress you every single silicon architectural feature required to implement them is undoubtedly patented out the loving rear end. jesus christ
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2023: year of the open sores gpu edit: nope 2024, so all the glsl 1.0-related items can expire 
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Truga posted:why would you store colours in floats fp16 has been a common format for intermediate render targets for a long time
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fedora 25 has actually restored my faith in using linux on anything but the server a fair bit granted, i still think it is almost always preferable to just run windows and virtualize linux for almost all such uses, but with a minimum of customization fedora 25 actually feels like a good place to be wp red hat people
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yeah f25 is good, i switched to it from arch now if only chromium had a shipping wayland backend (because x11 touchpad scrolling is garbo) or epiphany was just a little bit less of a joke (it has an ad blocker, please add a ui for it)
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:there are reasons to consider as/400. well don't leave us hanging
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Sapozhnik posted:now if only chromium had a shipping wayland backend (because x11 touchpad scrolling is garbo) idk about chromium but actual retail Chrome supports native multitouch on linux if you enable the right poo poo
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i had to track down a 4.8 kernel package because i upgraded to 4.9 and it wiped my zfs kernel modules. then i spent most of the day learning kickstart and the libvirt tools and setting up a bridge interface.
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it is, if you're a sperg while we are on filesystem chat, apparently btrfs literally runs out of space if you use a small partition (like 4GB, I think). Apparently it can't turn unused space into free space so that it could actually get used. And you can't reclaim the space with utils without actually adding another device to provide free space in order to make free space. I guess it don't matter unless you make 4GB filesystems on your flash drive for your linux desktop.
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hifi posted:i had to track down a 4.8 kernel package because i upgraded to 4.9 and it wiped my zfs kernel modules. then i spent most of the day learning kickstart and the libvirt tools and setting up a bridge interface. lol zfs on linux nice license violation there
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atomicthumbs posted:well don't leave us hanging actual business reason: tons of interop poo poo for your lovely god drat mainframe. old school mainframe apps required you to install a "terminal controller" at every branch office anyway. upgrade that to a as/400 (or system i or whatever) and you can have some local brains to process poo poo BEFORE making the round trip to the mainframe cool yospos reason: as/400s have unified storage and 128 bit pointers. there's no distinction made between ram, swap, and disk. everything is just a fuckin place you can grab poo poo from. it's rad as hell this is a v. good book if you enjoy sperging out about this poo poo https://www.amazon.com/Inside-As-400-Frank-Soltis/dp/1882419138 this is a short pdf on why the as/400 is cool https://www.scss.tcd.ie/SCSSTreasuresCatalog/hardware/TCD-SCSS-T.20121208.068/IBM-AS400-technical-introduction.pdf
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last week i fixed a crashing iscsi server by upgrading stock centos 7 to 4.4.44 from elrepo, it was messed up
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:lol zfs on linux did they have a lawyer say what ubuntu doing was bad? this is just on ym fedora rig so i don't think there's any way i can do something illegal
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hifi posted:did they have a lawyer say what ubuntu doing was bad? this is just on ym fedora rig so i don't think there's any way i can do something illegal It's not illegal to do it yourself--it's just potentially a license violation to distribute Linux and ZFS together. Canonical doesn't give a poo poo though because they are headquartered in the Isle of Mann so they are harder to sue (as far as I understand it).
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:actual business reason: tons of interop poo poo for your lovely god drat mainframe. old school mainframe apps required you to install a "terminal controller" at every branch office anyway. upgrade that to a as/400 (or system i or whatever) and you can have some local brains to process poo poo BEFORE making the round trip to the mainframe the as/400 was created and manufactured in rochester so it's good
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Perplx posted:last week i fixed a crashing iscsi server by upgrading stock centos 7 to 4.4.44 from elrepo, it was messed up you sure your multipath wasn't hosed up and you just blew away the bad config
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VikingofRock posted:It's not illegal to do it yourself--it's just potentially a license violation to distribute Linux and ZFS together. Canonical doesn't give a poo poo though because they are headquartered in the Isle of Mann so they are harder to sue (as far as I understand it). canonical doesn't care because they are a fly-by-night and their "support" is a joke
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hifi posted:did they have a lawyer say what ubuntu doing was bad? this is just on ym fedora rig so i don't think there's any way i can do something illegal the problem is that because combining the products is a license violation, zfs on linux is a rare circumstance and there are very few users it's almost totally un-tested. you might as well be running btrfs
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the problem is that because combining the products is a license violation, zfs on linux is a rare circumstance and there are very few users i assume they have unit tests. it works on my machine
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Roargasm posted:you sure your multipath wasn't hosed up and you just blew away the bad config i'm not using multipath (i know single point of failure), the config was unchanged i just yum install'ed kernel-ml
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this is a short pdf on why the as/400 is cool summary: "everyone who still buys this dinosaur age poo poo is running amazingly dusty decks and is locked in as gently caress so it's cool if everything is actually running in an emulator". the underlying cpu isn't actually 128 bit at all
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BobHoward posted:summary: "everyone who still buys this dinosaur age poo poo is running amazingly dusty decks and is locked in as gently caress so it's cool if everything is actually running in an emulator". the underlying cpu isn't actually 128 bit at all it was always "in an emulator," so to speak, from the very beginning. there was never any architecture other than the 128 bit TIMI also, everything is "emulated" ahead of time. timi bytecode gets compiled to native POWER instructions aot, so it runs plenty fast
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BobHoward posted:summary: "everyone who still buys this dinosaur age poo poo is running amazingly dusty decks and is locked in as gently caress so it's cool if everything is actually running in an emulator". the underlying cpu isn't actually 128 bit at all yeah but that was always the case, AS/400 was designed from the start as a virtual architecture for that kind of scaling and implementation change functionality in a similar old-but-modern way, the IBM RT PC (6150 & friends) actually had a hypervisor that its operating systems ran on, rather than have them run directly on the bare hardware you couldn't run AOS and AIX and Mach simultaneously though, as it wasn't that kind of VM; it could have been extended to support that, though an RT was already so excruciatingly slow that it would've only been a CS student party trick (unlike running System 6 simultaneously with the BSDSS on MacMach, which ruled) I should ask some folks whether the RT hypervisor also handled the floating point implementation; it had several different FP coprocessor options, including a 68881 option, which is just bizarre even by 80s workstation standards
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overwatch patches for wine out! https://bitbucket.org/awesie/wine-overwatch/src/overwatch/OVERWATCH
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i tried to install fedora and for the fifth time it hosed up hilariously ubuntu mate is sorta okay but I installed OpenSUSE (tumbleweed) at someone's recommendation and it seems pretty great. it's on a refurbished 32gb sandisk ultra extreme pro triple or w/e i got for $13 tumbleweed is rolling release and they use opencv and poo poo to automatically test package updates by performing actual tasks then linux 4.10 came out and I downloaded it and patched it with MuQSS for CPU scheduling and BFS for IO scheduling and compiled it and surprisingly 1. it's fast and 2. it worked the first time My linux curse is broken now if only i can figure out how to install amdgpu-pro on opensuse so I can actually do what i installed it for (use opencl on my amd 7870)
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mate is nice, opensuse rules
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